Airside

Air traffic control for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Everyone else flies the aircraft. You work the tower.

Buy Airside

Your first shift

You sit down at the desk, and the field is already busy.

Aircraft at the gates are still boarding. One is ready to push back. Two more are on final. Every one of them is waiting for a call from you.

One instruction

Say it, and it happens.

Hold a key and speak, the way you have heard it done a hundred times. Or pick the aircraft and press the button. The crew answers you either way.

KLM1673 B738 LINED UP
Rwy09
GS000
PosTWR

Waiting on you

    A day that runs itself

    Morning rush. Quiet afternoon. Evening push.

    Flights land, park, take their bags and their fuel, and go out again on the next leg. Nothing is set up by hand and nothing repeats itself. You turn up, and there is a day waiting for you.

    You choose how hard it should be. A quiet field where you can take your time, or an hour with no gaps in it at all.

    Anywhere you fly

    The airport is yours.

    The gates, the stands, the taxiways and the runways come from the simulator, so your home field is there already and so is everywhere else. Real airlines, going to places they really fly to.

    Every crew has a voice, and it sounds like the airline it belongs to. A British crew and a German crew are not the same person twice.

    In the box

    What you will see out there.

    292airlines

    2,599iCounted with FSLTL installed. Microsoft Flight Simulator's own aircraft are fewer and more generic: 190 of them wear an airline's colours.

    aircraft in real airline liveries
    Everyairport in the world
    Everycountry in the world

    54

    voices and accents on the frequency

    Airside

    Buy it once. It stays yours.

    €19.95

    The launch price runs for 30 days, and the price is then €49.90.

    Updates are included, and not charged for. You buy it once: no subscription, and nothing to renew.

    You need
    Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, on Windows 10 or 11, and 2048 MB of memory for Airside itself iMeasured with Airside open and no shift running: 1.3 GB. At the heaviest traffic level it reaches 2.6 GB. That level is yours to set, so a quieter field, or a lighter setting on a busy one, asks for less.
    Before your first shift
    Turn the simulator's own aircraft traffic off
    First install
    The installer is small and fetches the rest: about 720 MB, once, the first time you run it. Keep 2 GB free on the drive you put it on
    Internet
    Needed when Airside starts
    Microphone
    There are two ways to work and you pick one: press the buttons, or hold a key and say it. A microphone is needed only for the second

    What it looks like

    This is your screen.

    The trailer
    The whole desk on one screen
    On stand, and every vehicle it needs free
    A widebody still on the roll after touchdown
    Say it out loud, and the desk writes it properly
    A night shift at a single runway field
    Every order this aircraft can be given now
    The route, the runway, the climb and the squawk
    Lined up and holding, with one waiting behind
    Who is waiting, on what, and for how long
    Rolling, and it can still be stopped
    Every landing watched, and how it went
    The field from the tower after dark
    It finds your airport, then gets out of the way
    Made up, real, or taught
    The day your airport is actually flying
    How hard the made up day gets
    Which aircraft your traffic wears
    Hold a key and say it, or click it
    How many vehicles, and how long a turnaround takes

    Before you decide

    Questions people actually ask.

    What is Airside?

    An air traffic control simulator for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. You work the tower and the ground at any airport in the simulator.

    Do I need Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024?

    Yes, owned and installed. Airside controls the simulator and does not replace it. Turn the simulator's own aircraft traffic off before your first shift, because Airside places the aircraft itself.

    Which airports does it work at?

    Every airport the simulator has. The runways, taxiways, taxiway names, gates and stands, and published departure (SID) and arrival (STAR) procedures are all read from the simulator's own data, so a scenery add-on works the same as a stock field.

    Do I have to speak, or can I click?

    Either. There are two modes and you pick one at the start of a shift: click, or speech.

    Do I need to know the phraseology?

    No. Four lessons teach the position, and what they teach is generated from the same grammar the product listens to, so a lesson cannot teach a sentence Airside will not understand. The crews also ask for what they need, in phraseology, before you have to guess.

    Is it a subscription?

    No. You buy Airside once and it stays yours. There is nothing to renew, and updates are included and not charged for.

    What does it need to run?

    Windows 10 or 11, 64 bit, with 2048 MB of memory and 2 GB of disk. No additional processor or graphics requirement. An internet connection is needed at start up, and a microphone only if you want to speak.

    Can I move it to another PC?

    Yes. Write to support and we will move the licence to the new computer, once in any twelve months. That covers a new PC or replaced hardware.